a ground offensive against gaza could be drawing closer as these are already as heavy weapons and drugs thousands of additional troops while hamas sampras rockets on. the you watch frozen wavering support for israel's operation blaming hamas for the spike in violence but many people on the streets of new york and washington do not agree. our own doctor people in england and wales avoid to trees down oh police commissioners for the front line the wrong label. workload could lead to officers going on strike.

international news and comment live from moscow this is archie with me hello and welcome to the program israel is calling up thousands of additional troops and moving heavy weapons towards gaza stoking fears of a ground assault and it's also pushing forward with in terms air raids and naval attacks as hamas vows to retaliate and continue rocket strikes targeting tel aviv and it. has struck time nineteen palestinians or three israelis have reportedly been killed since their phones one wednesday. and reports now from tel aviv. most of the indications most of the rumors circulating around around this situation none of them really confirmed and seems to be pointing towards a possible ground attack and you could narrow that down possibly even further given certain comments by israeli defense spokespeople that perhaps in the in the same pattern as was held in two thousand and eight to nine operation cast lead there

that was the last time anything of this intensity was seen that a similar kind of pattern will unfold and we will see a night ground offensive by israeli ground forces israeli defense post people will not confirm whether that's actually happening or not but more and more little bits of evidence are gathering together to point in that direction certainly the israeli operation is not over the aerial bombardment of gaza by israeli drones and aircraft has massively intensified it's apparently dropped off just in the past hour or so but the the overall intensity of it with dozens of strikes being carried out across the gaza strip in the past few hours it seems that the intensity of that operation as israeli spokesmen say to try and destroy the terrorist infrastructure there has really been stepped up and it is it does seem likely from

that that the reports of civilian casualties will also increase to embark on their reporting from tel aviv and you can get further updates on the situation in gaza by following him on twitter as told by an underscore. or also staying in contact with activists and documentary filmmaker harry fear who's currently working in gaza and his latest update us as it's getting harder to stay safe there. the situation in gaza now is very severe in the green zone where international space is currently not safe and we're hearing it nearby mabel shutting within five minutes drive the opposition so even the safest areas of gaza are not particularly safe tonight we've actually moved from our building to a hotel just increased security the best that we can so things are great in gaza and more than one hundred. injured we went to a hospital and saw the injured children as a result of what's happened in the last two days we went to

a strike actually three hour strike sites within hours of them being targeted. at the scene though still you know everyone holds on the ground. and no one because it's too dangerous to go back to sites because israel has a historical record of retargeting them but we've heard anecdotal evidence that israel is using a suspicious weapons we're seeing a lot of. we're seeing hearing reports of strange. smells stronger. sheaffer hospital the largest hospital in gaza in central gaza city within two minutes. a building we could see the smoke rising up. out of israeli tanks saying. those being photographic evidence of the what we can only but assume that there is a precursor to a ground invasion as israel has promised to exact on the strip. in the next in the next day or so despite a number of civilian deaths including those of children

a foreign ministry has hailed the proceeding all of these are a new operation and my colleague has been speaking to the spokesperson poll here. this is being so far one of the most surgical pinpoint military operations in modern military history i think again you will see that the civilian to militant casualty ratio will show up in israel to have unfortunately killed civilians but far fewer then than any other comparable military. action but you have a pinpoint operation you call this one of the most precise and exact and pinpoint military operations that israel's unknown in recent history and that can allow for what you might consider collateral damage the killing of children when you when you presented and you talk about civilians it's always said as all the civilian the israeli civilians being killed just today the three israelis who were killed but all of the palestinians who were killed seven are confirmed militants choose to use

it like you know you are you. possibly you're just giving rise to anti israeli attitudes among palestinians let's have a listen to this quickly as the hamas leader that we spoke to just a bit earlier playstyle by. the assassination of this great leader. really confirms that we are still in the heart of resistance with the israeli good we are designers generally knows nothing like the language of chilling and the blood of our battle with the enemy is an open a lot of the time of god willing and when this battle will end with palestine and jerusalem liberated being what we should wait for our actions and. we've seen their actions a situation which most often anywhere in the world could accept what would. simple moscow we talk about missiles and let's this clarify here we're talking about mortar rockets that are being ultra directed over some some might say that a mortar rocket from the palestinian militants compared to your. health fire inside why the missiles from your super high tech fighter jets oh well that's quite

a big difference between fireworks and bombs but the truth of them it is that we have a situation where just today three israeli civilians were killed call the mortars call the missiles those or did civilians we have a situation where in the recent past some thirty percent of these raby children in southern israel diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder that israel was heavily criticized by a part of the world community i agree with you there i remind you and i point out that that was four years ago the lowest civilian to militant casualty rate in history twenty nine percent of those killed were civilians and i'm not belittling the death of any civilians but far lower than any other military campaign in the last century i think that we will see something similar to start we're hoping to achieve a number of things first and foremost to significantly degrade the command and control operational abilities of. israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu

has also been talking about hating hamas with what he calls surgical strikes warning of a significant why doing out there operation he spoke to dr mohammad said bonnie has been treating the wounded and he says that coming from residential areas not military sites. and armed civilians are under attack including women and children of all the injured we are treating come to us from residential areas we are located in the intensive care unit of the clinic here in this bed as a nine month old girl with severe head injuries her life is hanging in the balance yesterday a boy came in who's only eleven months old he had burns over ninety five percent of his body he died an hour after admission these are children invaders started the war and against whom i think that launched a war against children and ordinary people because all of our patients are civilians. and you can keep track of what's happening in gaza now website called a timeline featuring the live updates on the latest with everything from eyewitness accounts from the besieged official statements from all sides. for their view right

now a warning to israel for its somewhere to block the internet in gaza they've also prepared detailed instructions we do users on how to avoid a communications blackout story and also covering the conflict in gaza and also you know. the u.s. has blamed the escalating violence in gaza on hum are saying its rocket attacks were destabilizing the situation and pushing peace efforts farther away but protesters took to the streets of new york and washington with a different view they motion support of the people in gaza who are suffering from the israeli assault demonstrators were calling separate palestinian state and then to the violence the. signs as many as six hundred accidents have gathered outside the israeli consulate in the city that comes as washington strongly by the use of force against gaza so unions who has the right to defend itself responded explains

. there's been several responses on the international level most of the un's most powerful voices have called on israel's defense forces and gaza's militant groups to exercise restraint but the u.s. has remained the exception the u.s. has backed israel's decision to launch an operation according to the white house president barack obama spoke with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu by phone on wednesday reiterating washington support for israel's right to defend itself after coming under rocket attacks from gaza the two reportedly agreed that hamas needs to first stop its attacks on israel to allow the situation to deescalate obama reportedly urged netanyahu to make every effort to avoid civilian casualties now the u.s. president also delivered this message to his egyptian counterpart. ahmed morsi during a separate phone conversation that's of course according to the white house now meanwhile other major un powers like britain and russia have issued more neutral

statements calling on all sides to exercise restraint and prevent any acts as coalition of violence u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon echo those sentiments reminding all parties to respect their obligations obligations under international humanitarian law and to ensure the protection of civilians at all times the u.n. secretary general is scheduled to visit the region next week in order to advance a cease fire between israel and hamas but we should also mention that leaders the arab world are also holding israel accountable and blaming israel for this escalation of violence so clearly the u.n. as she has a lot on his plate if he is when he attempts to to to successfully achieve a cease fire because for now this violence is clearly spiraling and escalating. stay with us on the crisis in gaza but also follow our live updates on twitter and of course we're closely following this story for you.

the world's second largest economy gets a new leader with a week long power transfer coming to a close coming out of school china's growing might means for the wild as the new leadership plans ahead for the next step is. that you are gonna star in talks that's will determine how many american servicemen stay in the country after the nato troops withdrawal the twenty four team will have the details in just a few. lines . would be soon which brightened if you only bounce from funds to these. stocks on t.v.

dot com. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are all day. this is as he welcome back tech it has given serious national coalition and major boost by recognizing the opposition group as an egyptian a representative of the country's people france early became the first western powers officially acknowledged the alliance and is now considering supplying weapons to the rebels the syrian opposition is not being for more support among the fetus compared to meet with the u.k.

for effective training britain wants to see a clear plan of political transition from their lines alison suturing official recognition of the cake but also lifting the arms and barbell the rebels german journalist radio ox and writer take his move to have the opposition could eventually backfire. and within the last month turkey was supporting the rebels and i don't see the syrian rebels we know that the rebels who are fighting against the syrian government are coming from all over the region they are coming from because it's reaching there are coming from of yemen we know that there are rebels coming from movie even from sudan but that turkey is providing the infrastructure for these mercenaries are jihadists who are coming into the syrian country this politics towards syria it's a very short term politics it's the fuel short terms and if before to disappear and if syria were peaceful it among the warlords in this country which i know supported

by the west by turkey and by. emirates countries such jokey would witness these warlords sooner or later of taking also turkey and i think the turkish people knows that this politics is drawing against the interests of the turkish we have now it's huge demonstrations in the stumble in ankara against it specially against that form of church politics the word syria because you know that this is violating their interests. people in england and wales have been given a choice of who they want to see keep the peace in their local areas they have voted for police and crime commissioner as for the first time but the new development goes hand in hand with old problems with a former london police chief warning that plummeting morale is putting the fight against crime a triscuit. why the force no longer feels it has the government's support. another day another demo and the police only with old hands to keep control but while the boys and girls in blue do their jobs and sometimes even political

conditions the government is reducing their budget by a massive twenty percent the net result more all in the force hits an all time low with just fifteen out of fourteen thousand officers saying they feel the government gives them a great deal of support rachel is surprised but not in a good way. to say their fifteen offices are. in the force i work in lancashire and i don't have any offices to fill up being supported by the government at rock bottom baines has lost five hundred fifty officers from her force meaning more work for those left behind and a genuine fear that when people call nine nine nine there won't be anyone left to deal with the emergency and she's not alone so i'm in pain is chair of the war except police federation says morale hasn't been this low in his twenty six year career we have

a plethora of issues over the last two years where the start or conditions of service with pension reforms or were thought forms in the police service person twenty percent cuts and if i give an example here in work prior to this government coming to power we had a thousand and fifty offices we're now down into the seven hundreds we have one of the biggest meit's way networks in the country and we have no traffic department. so it's coming from all sides times are so hard in war that the force is even selling off it stations including its h.q. there's no first sale here but the iconic scotland yard headquarters of the metropolitan police is also on the markets it's a real turnaround it's just. a year ago they met with trumpeting a three million pound refurbished space was revolving starting now it's downsizing

to a new size of the thames nearby and replacing smaller stations with counters in supermarkets and communities that insist the force feels it's being disproportionately targeted at home secretary to resume a is on repentant let's stop pretending the police are being picked on they do feel picked on and critically powerless to protect themselves as legally the police aren't allowed to strike but that could change to february we are ballots and everyone can fall off the rank of chief inspector in england and wales and the very question is do they want full industry rights and and the reason that is important is because all members need protecting from what they perceive is an uncertain treatment by bombing schools and the police force on strike it's the last thing the government needs to take you really is it still has not the winter of

discontent in the face your assessment or team. and. whipping up a storm of controversy if you are so mad you say agency is facing a flood after it's revealed its all a disaster of trailers on the very day sunday was upgraded by forecasters to a super storm. and also for you know what science chanting announces out and growing coffee break protesters plan says the leader of a comment by german chancellor angela merkel pointed out at all. she said to make them so angry. with a week long transition of power now attend china will be led by a new political face the next ten years seizing payment was anointed as the communist party's leader responsible for the stewardship of the world's second largest economy and we've been getting analysis on this journalist eric margolis believes the further rise of china may mark the beginning of

a new cold war. the u.s. is adopted a policy of containment similar to that of the soviet union and the one nine hundred fifty s. . shoring up its political civic alliances it's really positioning the military forces in the region president obama announced the pivot towards asia so this is very clear china's just the just announced that they're expanding the navy as a priority we're looking at something that looks like the contest we germany and britain before world war one it's a worry hopefully we'll manage the danger is this that america's allies know about japan. the dangers drawn with china right now over the same kind who islands and war could break out they're shooting could break out any day we want but america then could be drawn by its japan's fighting china america could be

drawn into the conflict as it could be with the philippines or with south korea. and let's now take a look at some other stories making news around the world the. scene was cia director david petraeus says he did not pass close and information to his biographer very hard and i think iraq the former general is being investigated by the cia and claims that he quit due to the sex scandal rather than controversy over their souls on the u.s. consulate in libya which left four americans dead the tresses due to testify on capitol hill about the latter. the debt crisis predicted to drive the eurozone a three second recession since two thousand and nine according to a new survey it says negative growth is forecast to return next year the economic downturn comes amid waves of protests by millions of people across europe this week demanding the end of astonishing rushes. the b.b.c. has paid nearly three hundred thousand u.s.

dollars tofu to margaret thatcher after strongly accusing him of child sex abuse implicating the top conservative official gold in the copper mine in this condo has severely tarnished the b.b.c.'s reputation of forcing its director general and other executives to resign by car pints he was terrified to find himself at the center of the allegations. they all joined b.p. has agreed to plead guilty to charges in the deadly fuel spill in the gulf of mexico which devastated the environment and claimed the lives of eleven people the corporation will pay a record settlement with the us authorities are worth four point five billion dollars in return for the case being three employees had to face charges over twenty ten disaster of them of manslaughter the company will soon get that money from the sale of fifty percent of ten k. be paid to the russian ross net. but you also have got to start have discussed a number of differences as they begin talks over new security arrangements after

nato was draws in twenty fourteen and all the questions raised are how big the u.s. military presence will be and whether they'll be granted immunity from prosecution . and what the details from kabul. the u.s. and afghanistan have kicked off talks on thursday tough talks about the security framework agreement that the two countries will maintain after most of the nato combat forces withdraw from the country at the end of twenty fourteen now these are expected to be rather controversial contentious talks they come amid a climate of suspicion and mistrust between the two countries one of the biggest issues on the table here we expect this to take about several months to complete in the force the afghan government has long complained about the conduct of u.s. forces operations on the ground here in afghanistan some of the issues that they're not happy with are for example the controversial u.s. special forces strikes night raids that end up killing many civilians and also at

the issue of stuff here is a top i mean the afghan government insists that american soldiers who are accused of committing crimes here in afghanistan are trying within this country under afghanistan's legal system american troops say no they want their men to be tried in the united states and of course this issue this taken on rather. more urgency in light of the massacre that took place in march for an american soldier was accused of going essentially on a shooting spree killing sixteen civilians in the kandahar province issues like this really do resonate with the public it's a very visual example of sort of misdeeds by the u.s. forces and of course the illegal murder of civilians is certainly something that should be tried under afghan law according to the officials here this also comes amid a climate of mistrust after certain cultural missteps for example the controversial video that showed u.s. marines urinating on the corpses of afghans as well as of course the notorious cases of going on burning sort of indicating the climate of social insensitivity

but unfortunately emphasis on the ground here with u.s. troops and what we've seen is instances of her example of taliban. ending up in the ranks of afghan soldiers who end up turning their guns against the american trainers. well as other afghans who may or may not be happy with the conduct of certain soldiers and end up turning their guns on the americans as a result of that and so what this really reflects perhaps a policy that hasn't necessarily played out very well at least seven hundred thousand u.s. citizens have signed online petitions calling for their states to peacefully is separate from the union they are unhappy with president obama's recent re-election to the white house and activist preston's things talks of breaking away is gaining momentum because american society is increasingly torn apart with political and cultural traditions but question is whether the united states in its present form is sustainable for an indefinite period of time there are many people who would say

no that's certainly not the case because we look at things like the fiscal the economic bankruptcy of the united states we look at its military overseas military fire and the question of the military which direction we look at the ever more divisive cultural and social and ethnic issues that are currently plaguing our society we look at the widening class divisions that we see going on in this well at least what we see is a society that in many ways is becoming ever more divided over time along all sorts of cultural and economic and demographic lines so it's nice to believe that the united states can continue in that kind of direction for an indefinite period of time it's certainly plausible to start taking a look at alternatives like succession and maybe scaling back into smaller political units of the type that some of these movements like the second vermont republic advocate. after a short break we'll have capital account with host laura less to.

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. good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm laurin lister here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for thursday to remember fifteenth two thousand and twelve after brant crude reportedly rose to one hundred eleven dollars a barrel today because of supply concerns with fighting between israel and gaza the

headlines then changed to reflect oil falling as the media said economic fears outweighed mideast violence these are the type of news making events that some argue impact the day to day price swings in oil what about the bigger more complex picture of supply and demand to pain that is mehran could. energy investment strategist casey research and house panel has released a long awaited ninety seven page report reportedly blaming placing the blame squarely on the shoulders of john corazon for m.f. global's collapse it also places blame on regulators and ratings agencies and makes the case for civil action falls short of accusing poor design of breaking the law also no democrat signed on so what does this mean for the case against the failed firms former c.e.o. will hear from a lawyer representing m.f. global customers john breaux and. mary.